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Bidding Information
Lot #    24138
Auction End Date    7/7/2009 12:09:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Or ha-Me'ir
Title (Hebrew)    אור המאיר
Author    [Hasidim - Kabbalah] R. Ze'ev Wolf
City    Warsaw
Publisher    (Baumritter)
Publication Date    1890
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    27; 34; 40; 43; 45 ff., 224:145 mm., wide margins, usual age staining. A very good copy bound in contemporary boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    R. Ze'ev Wolf of Zhitomir (d. 1800), hasidic preacher, disciple of R. Dov Baer, the Maggid of Mezhirech. His book, Or ha-Me'ir (Korets, 1798), is important for its wealth of material on the history of Hasidism and teachings of its founders. R. Ze'ev criticized the behavior of the zaddikim of his day who had abandoned simple living for luxury. An opponent of noisy prayer, he contended that one should pray with kavvanah, with the object of elevating one's thoughts and realizing one's insignificance: "One ought to pray with fear and reverence and stand upright and not be heard, and only move the lips" (Or ha-Me'ir, Terumah).
          
Paragraph 2    .. נדפס ... ע"י השותפים ה"ר פייבל מונק. ור"מ יודקעס. ור"ש מינק. ור"ל ראזינבלאט ... [חלק א-ה].
          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0129122
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Hasidic:    Checked
  
Kabbalah:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica